1,000,000 License PAK's Served!1237 (1/8/2007 8:14:39 PM) comp.os.vms The OpenVMS Hobbyist Program has served it's one millionth License PAK! http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/blog/index.php ... davidc
Open VMS 7.1 - System Maintenance #2126 (1/9/2007 9:39:24 PM) comp.os.vms We're continuing to have weird problems with our overnight processes. As was suggested by the Group, we installed the patch to queue manager. This didn't seem to have any benefit, but at least didn't break any... Andrew
ODS5 and hardlinks2633 (1/10/2007 1:18:58 PM) comp.os.vms That newfangled ODS5 beast is all foreign to me... I don't yet have 20 years experience with VMS (this comes in may this year :-), so pardon my newbieness in this matter... I've tried to find documentation t... jfmezei.spamnot(8836)
Hopeless HP support infrastructure637 (1/11/2007 11:10:30 AM) comp.os.vms Alpha, VMS 7.3-1, UCX V5.3 ECO 4, but confirmed to be a problem on later versions according to HP Canada support. TCP/IP support gives the impression of having been very seriously cut back as I have been tryin... clubley(1187)
RMS-E-WLK, device currently write locked573 (1/12/2007 10:02:32 PM) comp.os.vms What are the possible reason that $1$DIA3: got write locked ? BRAKLIMS $ DISMOUNT $1$DIA3: BRAKLIMS $ MOUNT/SYSTEM/NOASSIST/WRITE $1$DIA3: DATA3 DATA3 %MOUNT-I-WRITELOCK, volume is write locked %MOUNT-I-MO... rajib_agarwala(3)
Blast from the 1988s (DEC proposal)635 (1/13/2007 9:56:52 AM) comp.os.vms While looking for a binder to use for printed doc, I stumbled on a 1988 proposal by Digital with a former employer. Interestingly, it starts with "This document is the property of, and is proprietary to Digi... jfmezei.spamnot(8836)
Alpha Server 1200 memory configuration quiz1528 (1/13/2007 10:44:56 AM) comp.os.vms System description: Alpha Server 1200 with two 5/400 cpu's and two pairs of 32 MB memory boards, 128 MB total memory. The system runs VMS V8.3, no patches (yet). We all know Digital's standard reply to perform... hvlems(888)
PDP11 Tape Copy to VAX: DOS11_BLOCKSIZE1840 (1/13/2007 8:22:10 PM) comp.os.vms Hi, I have three old 9-track, 1600bpi tapes created on a PDP-11 system using the COPY process. I don't have any more details on the process used to create the tapes than that. I am using a MicroVAX II/GPX ru... msi.bruce(16)
Odd DSSI/Cluster behaviour. Phanton disks appear online424 (1/16/2007 1:06:40 PM) comp.os.vms This in not important, but interesting/ odd ! Node Velo and Wheel (VAX 7.3) have shared DSSI access to 5 drives $4$dia1 to $4$dia5. Nodes Chain and Bike are Alphas at 8.3 4 of those drives are dismounted f... jfmezei.spamnot(8836)
BACKUP - how much of the tape has been used1325 (1/17/2007 9:23:41 PM) comp.os.vms Hi I run a number of BACKUP to saves sets on a DLT Is there a way of finding out at the end of it how much of the tape has been used? Andrew ... Andrew